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System Transfer, Education, and Development in Mozambique

International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership

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Title System Transfer, Education, and Development in Mozambique
 
Creator Cossa, Jose
 
Subject system transfer, education, mozambique, salazar, machel, chissano, development
 
Description In this study the author used conceptual historical method to assess the phenomenon of system transfer and the association between education and development in Mozambique. The assessment was administered through critical analysis of documents pertaining to the Salazar (1924-1966), Machel (1975-1986), and Chissano (1986-2005) administrations. The findings were that (a) the colonial government created economic and educational systems for colonizing Mozambique, whereas the Machel and Chissano administrations adapted foreign systems of government and education (i.e., Socialism, Soviet, Democracy, Portuguese, etc.), to their particular context without altering the inherent theoretical basis of the systems transferred; (b) the Machel and Chissano administrations, implicitly or explicitly, perceived the relationship between education and development as circular causality rather than a unidirectional linear causality, while the Salazar administration perceived it as unidirectional linear causality; and (c) while the Machel and Chissano administrations focused on primary education, literacy campaigns, and education of women and girls, they differed in the reasons for such focus.
 
Publisher IJEPL is a joint publication of PDK International, SFU, GMU, and UDel
 
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Date 2011-03-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
historiography (coceptual historical method)
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/view/93
10.22230/ijepl.2011v6n2a93
 
Source International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership; Vol 6, No 2 (2011): System Transfer, Education, and Development in Mozambique
1555-5062
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/view/93/107
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Jose Cossa
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